Sunday, 28 December 2014

Reports of crash not true, search ongoing: Asian nation

Asked concerning reports that the missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 has crashed in Belintung, Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai confirmed the reports to be false. Amid reports that the missing AirAsia plane has crashed, the Malaysian Transport Minister on Sunday pink-slipped the claims that portion of the craft, carrying 162 individuals, had been found.

There were unofficial media reports that a craft crashed within the waters of East Belitung, off the geographic area of Sumatra.Sixteen kids and one babe were among the passengers on board the AirAsia airliner A320 two hundred that went missing on the flight from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore.

At a group discussion on Sunday morning, Indonesian officers same the plane was many hours past the time once its fuel would are exhausted.

Contact with the plane was lost forty two minutes once takeoff. there have been no Indian nationals on board. The plane took faraway from Surabaya  at 5:20 AM time and was scheduled  to land at Singapore's Changi airdrome at 8:30 AM.The exact location of the crash website has not been known, media reports same. The craft was within the Indonesian Flight data Region (FIR), quite two hundred nm southeast of the Singapore national capital FIR boundary, once contact was lost, Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore same.

Liow conjointly asked individuals to stay calm and not hear unproven news reports.There is lots of speculation that they need found the plane. At now in time that's not true. we tend to area unit still craving for the plane, Liow said.




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